National Instruments AT-MIO-16X - Manual (Page 309)

Glossary
AT-MIO-16X User Manual G-26 © National Instruments Corporation
word the standard number of bits that a processor or memory manipulates at
one time. Microprocessors typically use 8, 16, or 32-bit words.
working voltage the highest voltage that should be applied to a product in normal use,
normally well under the breakdown voltage for safety margin. See also
Breakdown Voltage.
Z
zero-overhead looping the ability of a high-performance processor to repeat instructions
without requiring time to branch to the beginning of the instructions
zero-wait-state memory memory fast enough that the processor does not have to wait during any
reads and writes to the memory